“The guy who crawled in the truck’s the hero,” Hamilton said. “That guy is amazing. He wasn’t leaving without him. To see him stay in there, and it was getting hotter, and everybody was yelling to get out because the tires were exploding, but the guy stayed in there the whole time. He wasn’t leaving without him”

According to Hamilton, the man who actually pulled the driver from the big rig drove off after the crash.

“He left and we don’t even know his name,” Hamilton said. “I wish I could have shaken his hand and said ‘thank you’ myself but when he was done he just left.”